Covid-19: No deaths, 92 cases in 24 hrs

Special Correspondent Published: 24 March 2022, 04:40 PM | Updated: 24 March 2022, 04:41 PM
Covid-19: No deaths, 92 cases in 24 hrs
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No one died from coronavirus and 92 contracted the virus in the past 24 hours.

With this, the total fatalities are 29,118 and infections rose 19,51,072. 

The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Thursday.

As many as 12,072 samples were collected and 12,111 ones tested in the past day.

During the period, 1,114 more patients recovered from the illness, taking the total recoveries to 18,78,880.

Bangladesh, however, first reported its coronavirus cases on March 8, 2020. 

The virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 and then it spread to other countries.

To date, the epidemic infected 476,655,678 people and killed 6,129,009 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, the total number of people who recovered from the virus reached 411,992,728 across the world.

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